Lyr Req: A few Charles Coborn Songs

20 Aug 06 - 11:52 PM (#1814819)
Subject: Lyr Req: A few Charles Coburn Songs
From: DerMann

Does anyone have the lyrics to the following songs:

-He's All Right When You Know Him
-Off She Goes Again

Both are by Charles Coburn. My source of these songs is from "The Greatest Music Hall Bill Ever Assembled" LP MFP 1146 by the Gramophone Corp.

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20 Aug 06 - 11:56 PM (#1814822)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A few Charles Coburn Songs
From: Peace

CD available here.

I shall continue to search for words.

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22 Aug 06 - 07:54 AM (#1815953)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A few Charles Coburn Songs
From: Jim Dixon

The British music hall performer was named Charles Coborn -- not to be confused with the American actor Charles Coburn.

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23 Aug 06 - 12:43 PM (#1817098)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A few Charles Coburn Songs
From: Peace

Good eye, Jim, as usual.

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13 Oct 06 - 11:53 PM (#1858434)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A few Charles Coborn Songs
From: Jim Dixon

"Ring Up the Curtain, Being a Pageant of English Entertainment Covering Half a Century" by Ernest Henry Short and Arthur Compton-Rickett, 1938, says:

"Bill Sloggins," better known as "He's all right when you know him," was another Coborn "hit." The chorus was introduced by a snatch of East End dialogue:

"Say, Jack. 'Ave you 'eard the noos? Bill's cut 'is wife's froat."
"No! 'Ave 'ee?"
"Yas!"
"Well, 'e warn't a bad sort, arter all, warn't Bill, when you knew 'im."

CHORUS: "'E's all right when you know 'im, but 'e's angry when 'e's vexed.
'E'll black your eye one minute, but 'e'll stand a pint the next.
'E wouldn't 'urt a baiby. 'E's a pal as you can trust.
'E's all right when you know 'im, but you've got to know 'im fust."

--From Google Book Search.

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